Oakland victim Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye — music manager...

1of39Kiyomi Tanouye, 31, was one of at least 36 people who died in Friday night�s fire at an Oakland warehouse known as the Ghost Ship. She was a music manager at Shazam. Photo: Facebook

2of3936 people perished in Oakland's Ghost Ship fire. Find out more about them in the following slides.Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle

3of39Travis Hough, Ben Runnels, and Nicole Renae Siegrist, also known as "Denalda," all died in the deadly Oakland FirePhoto: Brendan Dreaper, Associated Press

4of39Cash Askew, 22, whose family confirmed Sunday that she had died in the fire, was part of a local “goth-inflected duo” with Kennedy Ashlyn, Them Are Us Too, according to an article by journalist Beth Winegarner. Winegarner, who talked to Askew this year for an article in the feminist publication Bitch, posted the full interview online “in the hope of sharing what a thoughtful, bright and special musician Cash was.” Read more.Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP

5of39Jonathan Bernbaum, a 2004 graduate of Brandeis University in Massachusetts and 2008 graduate of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, Bernbaum went on to be an intern at Pixar Animation Studios before focusing fully on his VJ work, most recently doing shows for the Australian electronic duo Knife Party and traveling around the world on tours with various groups. Read more.

6of39Em Bohlka, 33, was a transgender poet who lived in Oakland with her former partner Natalie Jahanbani. "Em was the most caring, compassionate person I've ever met,"Jahanbani said. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from UC Riverside and a master’s degree in literature from Cal Poly Pomona. Read more.

7of39Barrett Clark, 35, who grew up in Santa Rosa, provided audio tech for nightspots including Bottom of the Hill, Mezzanine and DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Read more.Photo: Courtesy of Bottom of the Hill

8of39David Cline, 24, an Oakland resident, played the clarinet and loved volleyball. "To David, we love you. You will be with us always," his brother, Neil Cline, wrote in a brief Facebook post thanking those who supported the family in the agonizing hours since the fire. Before preparing to enroll at UC Berkeley in 2011, Cline led his Santa Monica High volleyball team to a state championship. He studied clarinet for 10 years with Amanda Jane Walker, an arts and music lecturer at UC Irvine. Read more.Photo: via Facebook

9of39Micah Danemayer had found love, formed an electronica band and discovered his niche in the Oakland art scene before he lost his life while performing. Danemayer, a Massachusetts native who was 28 and lived in Oakland, had been entertaining guests along with fellow audio and visual artists at the Golden Donna 100% Silk show when the fire broke out at the Ghost Ship warehouse. Read more.Photo: via Facebook

10of39Friends remember Billy Dixon, 35, as being creative, artistic and curious. He was known for his musical talent and positive energy, friends said. Read more.

11of39Chelsea Faith Dolan, 33, was vision of energy, music and creativity.
She made electronic music under the stage name of Cherushii. She hosted an underground radio program. She played eclectic electronic keyboard music. She performed at the Folsom Street Fair. She was a DJ, an audio remixer and a producer of dance music shows. Read more.Photo: Jeremy Danger

12of39Alex Ghassan was an independent filmmaker praised for his gift of sharing the stories of others — often the weak or oppressed struggling to find their way. Ghassan died in the fire that ripped through an Oakland underground music show Friday night. He was attending the event at the warehouse-turned-art-space with his fiancée, Hanna Ruax, a Finnish citizen who also died. Read more.Photo: via KQED

13of39Nick Gomez-Hall, 25, was a resident of Coronado, near San Diego, and a guitarist, a collector of LP records, a world traveler and an outdoorsman, according to his Facebook page. The 25-year-old was a former student at Brown University in Rhode Island. Recently, he shared messages with his former fiction writing professor, Mark Baumer, on the occasion of Baumer's fundraising walk across the United States to raise awareness about climate change. Read more.Photo: via Facebook

14of39Michela Gregory, 20, left, a San Francisco State student who studied child development while working at Urban Outfitters died in the fire alongside her boyfriend Alex Vega, right. Gregory grew up in San Bruno, pitched for the Millbrae Girls Softball League, and attended high school in San Francisco, where her family still lives. Friends described her as a loving woman who adored children and smiled easily. Read more.Photo: Photo provided by Dan Vega

15of39Sarah Hoda, 30, of Walnut Creek, was known to her pupils as "Miss S." at Urban Montessori Charter School in Oakland. "She was a sweet and caring teacher, and I am sure all the kids will miss her so much," said Isabel Bustillos, whose daughter attends the school. "(It) will be a bitter day at school without her. We are lighting some candles for her." Read more.Photo: via Facebook

16of39Travis Hough, 35, of Benicia, was identified as one of the victims of a fire at the Ghost Ship warehouse party in Oakland. Hough was one of the musical minds behind the Oakland electronic band Ghost of Lightning. He went by the name Travis Blitzen and helped write and perform the band’s heavily synthesized songs. Read more.Photo: courtesy Brendan Dreaper

17of39Friends called Ara Jo the most adaptable person ever, a vibrant artist and community organizer who could make friends with anyone, anywhere. Jo, 29, grew up in Los Angeles and was living in Oakland. Authorities notified her family, including her parents who flew in in from South Korea, of her death. Read more.Photo: Terry Ewing, AP

18of39Johnny Igaz was surrounded by what he loved most when he died: Music. Described as a mentor to many and an ally to women and the LGBT community, the 34-year-old Oakland resident and DJ had an undeniable passion for all kinds of music, from hip-hop to techno and house. Read more.Photo: via Facebook

19of39Donna Kellogg, 32, who was originally from Chico, was working at Highwire Coffee Roasters in Berkeley. A recent graduate of San Francisco State University, Kellogg was studying for an additional degree in culinary arts at Laney College in Oakland. Read more.Photo: courtesy of Josh Howes

20of39Amanda Kershaw, 34, had a freelance photography business called Panda Snaps. “Photography was her passion,” said her husband, Andrew Kershaw. “She loved it. And she fell in love with San Francisco.” Read more.Photo: via Facebook

21of39Edmond Lapine, 34, Edmond Lapine grew up in Utah, bouncing from Ogden to Park City to Salt Lake City, his father said Through his youth, music was a constant. He taught himself to play the guitar and joined a few bands. As he grew older, he began spinning records and working as a DJ. Read more.Photo: Courtesy, Family of Edmond Lapine II

22of39Griffin Madden, 23, graduated from Cal in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in both philosophy and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Read more.Photo: via Facebook

23of39Joseph Matlock, a.k.a. Joey Casio, 36Photo: via Facebook

24of39Jason McCarty, a 36-year-old Iowa native, began creating art before most children can spell their names. His father, Gene McCarty, said his interest developed around the age of 3 and never faded, always growing and expanding into new mediums — illustration, design, photography, painting, music.Photo: Photo courtesy Grace Lovio

25of39Draven McGill, 17, a junior at San Francisco's Ruth Asawa School of the Arts lived in Dublin, his friends said. His father, Phil McGill, works for the Dublin Police Department. Read more.Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle

26of39Jennifer Mendiola was identified as one of the victims of a warehouse fire in Oakland on Dec. 2, 2016. Read more.Photo: Courtesy of Anna Mendiola

27of39Jennifer Morris, 20, a UC Berkeley junior, who majored in media studies died in the fire along with her roommate, Vanessa Plotkin. Morris grew up in Foster City and graduated from San Mateo High in 2013. She studied at UC Santa Cruz before transferring. Read more.

Photo: via Facebook

28of39Feral Pines, a garage band bass player and art school graduate who was always trailed by a rescue dog, was confirmed dead Monday in the fire at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland. "A very soft, sensitive, caring person," said her father, Bruce Fritz of Westport, Conn. Read More.Photo: courtesy of Fritz family

30of39Wolfgang Renner, 61, was the oldest identified victim of the Ghost Ship fire. Renner was a musician who wrote and performed electronic keyboard music and who enjoyed loud tunes, spirited dancing and good times. Read more.Photo: Hand out, Courtesy Elecia Holland

31of39Hanna Ruax, of Helsinki, Finland, had been living in Oakland since November. She and Alex Ghassan had plans to marry and to go to Europe. But neither made it out alive. She was 32, and he was 35. Read more.Photo: via Facebook

32of39Ben Runnels, an Oakland musician who went by the name Charlie Prowler, performed with Nicole Siegrist, also known as "Denalda,"who also died in the fire. Read more.Photo: Devin Askounis, AP

33of39Nicole Siegrist, 29, who went by the name Denalda, was an Oakland musician, playing the synthesizer and omnichord for the music group, Introflirt. Her musical partner Ben Runnels also died in the fire. Read more.Photo: Taura Horn

35of39Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye loved shows, people and colors as bright and lively as she was. Tanouye, 31, was in the Ghost Ship warehouse doing what she loved to do for fun: painting designs on people’s nails. Read more.Photo: via Shazam

37of39Peter Wadsworth was a true eclectic — an artist, entrepreneur, computer expert and "walking, talking encyclopedia of knowledge and trivia." He was also the only one of the 36 people who died in the fire who had lived in the doomed Ghost Ship warehouse. Read more.

38of39Attorney Nick Walrath, 31, grew up in Point Breeze, Pa., an old neighborhood on the east end of Pittsburgh, and attended Taylor Allderdice High School. He pursued a lifelong interest in science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a double major in physics and philosophy. Read more.Photo: Timothy Archibald

39of39Brandon Chase Wittenauer, 32, an electronic musician from Hayward died in the fire. Also known by his stage name, Nex Iuguolo, the electronic music artist was born in Santa Barbara. Read more.Photo: Wittenauer family

A music manager at Shazam, Jennifer Kiyomi Tanouye loved shows, people and colors as bright and lively as she was.

“She was a real vibrant person, always smiling and going to concerts and stuff,” said Anna Bleviss Whitlatch of San Francisco, a friend for nearly a decade.

Tanouye, 31, was one of at least 36 people who died in Friday night’s fire at an Oakland warehouse known as the Ghost Ship. There, she was doing what she loved to do for fun: painting designs on people’s nails. Somewhere within the labyrinthine building, she had set up her “Underground Nail Bar,” which she took to parties everywhere.

She had recently taken up running and also found time to volunteer at Issues, a magazine store in Oakland, and at author parties and music festivals.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends, as well as all the victims of this tragedy,” said the music company’s chief executive, Rich Riley.

Tanouye was quirky and funny, said her friend Shayne Keator. He once told her about a fake art museum he called the Jejune Institute, and she quickly became obsessed with it, calling herself “Jenny Jejune” and naming her dog Jejune as well.

She was inseparable from the Pomeranian.

“Jejune was kind of like the symbol of her,” said Masha Pershay, a KQED intern and one of Tanouye’s best friends.

Most of all, Pershay said, Tanouye was a great person.

“She was always really helpful. Any time a friend had an emergency, she was just the kind of person you could call.”

Nanette Asimov covers California’s public universities — the University of California and California State University — as well as community colleges and private universities. You can find out what university leaders are up to, what's next for students and faculty, and what the latest breaking news is in on California campuses.

Previously, Nanette covered K-12 education for 20 years. Her stories led to changes in charter school laws, prompted a ban on Scientology in California public schools, and exposed cheating and censorship in testing. A past president of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Northern California chapter, Nanette has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.